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Anna Karenina – Life, Lively, Lived
“Life dominates Tolstoy. There is always at the centre of all the brilliant and flashing petals this scorpion ‘Why live?’” (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Russian Point…
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Do Electric Sheep Elicit Empathy?
In Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Rick Deckard is convinced he can tell “andys” apart from humans by using an established…
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Câte traduceri, atâtea Anne, atâția Levini
Nici nu pot să cuprind cu mintea de câte ori și în câte limbi a fost “Anna Karenina” a lui Lev Tolstoi tradus(ă), din 1878…
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Es war einmal, und ist doch nie geschehen
Iris Wolff, “So tun, als ob es regnet”, Klett-Cotta 2022 (Erste Ausgabe 2017, Otto Müller Verlag)
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Creative by AI
In Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ we see what happens when the artificial human is more human than the human.
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Și roboții sunt tot oameni
Fabulă, satiră, basm, povestirile lui Stanislaw Lem din “Ciberiada” sunt imposibil de clasificat. Roboții lui sunt numai cu numele roboți și în aventurile lor ne…
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Anna Karenina – opoziție și contrapunct
“Anna Karenina” de Lev Tolstoi. Nici nu îndrăznesc să sper că se mai poate zice sau scrie ceva nou despre ea, despre el. Dar ea,…
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Orlando. He Was a Woman.
‘Orlando is the hero who turns into a heroine, in a biography which turns out to be a fiction’ (Hermione Lee, ‘Virginia Woolf’)
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The I-Speak
Based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘I, Robot’ and ‘The Naked Sun’ I am wondering if the language machines speak can really be called “language”
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To the Lighthouse – Mrs Ramsay in Her House
In Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ Mrs Ramsay and the house on the Isle of Skye are one character.
diana
I’m Diana, a lifelong book and literature enthusiast.
I’m a big fan of 20th century literature and women writers, but I don’t shy away from classics, contemporary fiction, nor from an intelligent thriller.